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...Charleston...
...brought down the house. Taking a short vacation from her villa on the French Riviera and her twelve adopted children, she returned to New York for her first performance in nine years. At Carnegie Hall she sang a little, seductively, talked a lot, intimately, and smoothly did the Charleston, the dance she took with her to Paris in the '20s. Although everyone seemed to like her sequined body stocking, a few fans could not help remembering how pretty she used to look at the Folies-Bergère clad only in bananas...
Died. Jack E. Leonard, 62, nightclub and TV comic who made the abrasive, one-line gag into an art form; of complications following heart surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime lifeguard, Leonard began competing in Charleston contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your...
James Hubert Blake has been sounding good to a lot of people ever since he composed his first ragtime piece, Charleston Rag, at the age of 16. Born and raised in Baltimore, Eubie was the son of freed slaves. "My father would show me the stripes on his back," he recalls. "He looked like a leopard. My mother would say, 'Don't tell that boy about slavery.' My father said, 'Yes, I want him to know,' and he would say, 'Don't hate the people for that; they thought they were right...
...private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities that have turned over all or part of their garbage business to private hands include Boston, Omaha, Detroit, Dallas and Charleston, S.C. Indeed, only bureaucratic lethargy and union opposition prevent more cities from contracting with private companies. When Milwaukee, for instance, closed its antiquated city incinerators and hired an independent company to handle waste disposal, it incurred union wrath because 260 municipal sanitation workers were laid...